Between utopian and dystopian extremes: humanity as a candle in the dark

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We live in troubled times. Though an argument can be made that humanity has never gone through times that were not troubled, at least in one place or another. The current wave of problems, however, seem to be planetary in scale.

There is, of course, an ongoing pan-demic. And there is the increasingly undeniable horror of climate change…